Tag: #Monday Window

Two Houses, How Many Window Styles?

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Both these houses are from Michelstadt im Odenwald. I was fascinated by the different kind of windows, all coming together to one style, sort of.

The contrast between the sandstone and the white front, the windows with the rounded top on the ground floor, mirrored in the second floor balcony door cum window. The grey and white half-timbered style on the top floor with the small oblang windows. The combination of both styles in the little tower cum bay windows.

And here is another house with typical architectural details of the area. The creme coloured shingles set off by the simple oblong windows, set off by grey and brown frames. The sandstone set-ins with grilles leading to the basement. The angular bay window jutting out and decorated with half-timbered details in dark wood.

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School Windows

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These are windows of the Feudenheimschule in a district of Mannheim. Many schools were built in the first twenty years of the last century, and it shows in the style. Also, in our area of the country sandstone is an often used building material. This particular school was finished in 1913.

The detail in the top left photo is part of the crest of Mannheim, a wolf’s hook – a tool used to catch wolves and foxes in former times.

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The Water Tower in Mannheim-Wallstadt

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Built in 1904, it was operational from 1905 and secured the water supply for the independent town of Wallstadt (it became part of Mannheim 1929).

Today these old water towers are privately owned and inhabited. The living quarters are usually downstairs but the top floors are accessible. Imagine sitting up high in your own private tower and overlooking the whole of the Rhine valley, from the hills of the Odenwald to the hills of the Palatinate Forest.

Ironically, I only took photos of the upper storey windows.

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Useless Windows

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A wall left standing from arguably Germany’s most famous ruin, the Heidelberg Castle.
Seen in Heppenheim, on a Hofreite, a kind of grange.

On the back of an outbildung on Schloss Wiser in Hirschberg-Leutershausen.

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Sparkasse Heppenheim

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I’ve been driving past this building for years but I was always busy and/or rushed. Last week I was on my bike, had time and a camera. It’s the mutual savings institute’s building in a provincial town. I always wondered about the prominent stock exchange imagery. The bear and the bull are the main reason I stopped to take pictures (check out today’s Cosmic Photo Challenge about public art for a closer look) but the windows are remarkable as well.

Modern gable windows.
A modern take on a bay window.
Round windows in the jutting out cube – I don’t know if they also qualify as bay windows.

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Windows into the World

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We spent Easter Sunday at the Technical Museum in Speyer. We went into a Boeing 747, a Viscount, and a Canada Air CL-415 (an amphibious water bomber) amongst others. The windows are scratchy and dusty as these are museum pieces and no longer in use but that actually works well to make room for all that imagination.

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